# Copernicus takes a Ferrara doctorate in canon law on 31 May 1503

Date: 1503

## The fact

On 31 May 1503 [Copernicus](/people/nicolaus-copernicus) took a Ferrara doctorate in canon law. The instrument is that degree, not a later collected-works title-page. Nicolaus Copernicus's documented role is: He received the degree. Ferrara examined. The chapter wanted a lawyer-canon. He did not write Gratian.

## Context

The Warmia chapter is the employer-heading. Sharing that chapter job is required. Frombork installation is neighbouring. The setting of Copernicus takes a Ferrara doctorate in canon law on 31 May 1503 is the public file around 1503-05-31. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: MacTutor — Copernicus, Ferrara doctorate neighbourhood at https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Copernicus/ (University of St Andrews). Independent locator: Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferrara neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: MacTutor — Copernicus, Ferrara doctorate neighbourhood (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Copernicus/; University of St Andrews). Independent carrier: Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferrara neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: MacTutor — Copernicus, Ferrara doctorate neighbourhood (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Copernicus/; University of St Andrews).

## Significance

Improving path from Copernicus takes a Ferrara doctorate in canon law on 31 May 1503 on 1503-05-31. A dated canon-law doctorate is an education path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of Copernicus takes a Ferrara doctorate in canon law on 31 May 1503. Naming Nicolaus Copernicus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1503-05-31 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Copernicus takes a Ferrara doctorate in canon law on 31 May 1503 under 1503-05-31 for Nicolaus Copernicus. Established: a sourced public record of Copernicus takes a Ferrara doctorate in canon law on 31 May 1503 under 1503-05-31.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. One degree. Do not twin with Padua medicine as the same certificate. Mixed effects of Copernicus takes a Ferrara doctorate in canon law on 31 May 1503 are separate paths.

## People

- Nicolaus Copernicus: https://factrail.ai/people/nicolaus-copernicus

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Copernicus/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cp-ferrara-1503